Quad Itanium2

[FUGGER]

http://fugger.netfirms.com/i2.jpg

Pifast locks up, still missing drivers, ill try superpi next.

[Poki]

Did onboard video steal some of that ram? Might help with a pci vid card if theres a 32bit slot.
Wish i were you, looks like real fun ;)

[skate2snow]

Quad Itanium2!!!!!!!!!!!!!:o, It as cost you like 3000$!!!!!!!!!!!

But it looks like the fastest server i will never see this year!

Sow us some benchies:D

[freecableguy]

I have a dual (shows as 4 CPUs with HT) Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition system. It's dual 3.0Ghz Xeons....it farking screams. I love duallies......

[Tyberius]

Dont let it gain self awareness FUGGER, be a shame to have to put it down....great, i see the start of skynet, and of all people we have FUGGER overclocking it to make it faster lol Run while you still can!

[Soulburner]

7.99Gb of RAM..........!

[skate2snow]

Probably oze its a quad server, so you have more slots.....

[masterofpuppets]

OMFG!!!!!!!!! 4 PROCESSORZZZ WITH 8gig! /me drools...

It would be nice if the processors were all 3.2GhZ.

[Tyberius]

Yeah...but they dont exactly make 3.2ghz Itanium2s, last time i checked the fastest ones were 1.5ghz.

[FUGGER]

The system is an HP RX5670. It is a 4-way 1.3 GHz Itanium 2 with 3M Cache and 8G RAM.

http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/integrity/entry_level/rx5670/index.html

[Soulburner]

Originally posted by masterofpuppets
It would be nice if the processors were all 3.2GhZ.
Think AMD........or Centrino......not all processors work off of sheer clock speed.

[faruquehabib]

Originally posted by Soulburner
Think AMD........or Centrino......not all processors work off of sheer clock speed.

very true...

up to 96GB of ram :D

wow, pure raw torque on that rig...cant wait to see some benchies hehe

[Kanavit]

man, i wish Itanium2 was Intel's next desktop processor. I'm getting tired of x86 architecture. The Itanium2 has so much potential.

[skate2snow]

how you know that? And Itanium are not for some desktop, it whould suck for gaming and benching.

[Slickthellama]

the only thing they are good for is server applications

[a5h]

96 GB ram. w00t w00t! ...thats like a frickin Hard drive

[Kanavit]

Itanium2 has the strongest FPU out of all the cpus including opterons. FPU= good gaming

If more gaming software is written for IA-64 especially DX9 and drivers. It will show the true potential of 64-bit.

[masterofpuppets]

With 96gb of RAM, I could run my entire hdd at once in ram! Thats the good thing about PCI graphics, it leeches system ram, so technically, you could have gigabytes of video memory! Heh!

[Soulburner]

Originally posted by masterofpuppets
With 96gb of RAM, I could run my entire hdd at once in ram! Thats the good thing about PCI graphics, it leeches system ram, so technically, you could have gigabytes of video memory! Heh!
The video memory we have onboard our high end cards is faster and more suited to the task.....using system RAM (your Aperture) is a little slower.

[sandman]

Partly true, but if you got some DDR 2 in there at 800mhz, it would be decent. You could cache all the textures too.

[masterofpuppets]

You could load the ENTIRE game to RAM!

[dioSRL]

FUGGER, unleash the power of iNTEL :D Please do some benchies.. :wierd:

[masterofpuppets]

He is banned or removed as far as I know, join the XS channel on irc and ask about it!

[dioSRL]

what??? that's not possible

[FUGGER]

I am not banned. typo?

/shrug

[Intronic]

is SuperPi or PiFast working already?

[some_young_guy]

Originally posted by Intronic
is SuperPi or PiFast working already?

Are these programs even SMP aware?

[forey]

pics please :P!

[freecableguy]

back from the dead! anyone got a copy of whatever SS FUGGER posted at the top of this thread? I just picked up 4 Intel Itanium 2 1.4Ghz 4MB L3 cache (MP) processors and am looking for a chassis/motherboard to install these in. at the very least it will be a fun play thing before/if I decide to sell eventually. this will be like a $80K system for less than $3000.

[FUGGER]

Found it

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=30527

[drunkenmaster]

iirc, itanium is 19 IPC ain't it. deadly fast but completely unsuited as a desktop replacement for now. Fugger, is the 64 bit version is uses 64 bit as in ath 64 could run it , or, afaik its not compatible with the x86-64 architechture. can't quite remember.

either way its a very powerful cpu, the kind of companies that can afford setups based on them are the kinds that do hugely complex databases or mathematical calculations and would simply write their own coded programs to do something very specific. there is just not really a more powerful architechture to run off right now. but costs, and awful 32 bit performance means migrating desktops TO 64 bit only systems, rather than migrating this to a desktop type of cpu.

assuming pifast/super pi are coded in 32bit the emulation mode is awful, but still the raw power might make for something extraordinary. theres not exactly bags of benchmarks around, just the knowledge that its 32bit sucks, no real public known numbers of how it might do.

you don't pay $3k a chip to run 32bit software so no one that has one cares.

[FUGGER]

It can run 32bit apps poorly. I think it is in emulation. I tried to do superpi as it is based on math and it still ran bad.

[i found nemo]

any way to run a 64 bit benchmark then compare it to 32 bit benchmark of the same sort???

[saratoga]

Itanium2 has the strongest FPU out of all the cpus including opterons. FPU= good gaming



Power5 was ahead last I heard. Its mostly just a matter of $$$ not ISAs. IA64 is pretty crappy when you get down to it, since its more or less explicitly in order, but with a high enough transistor and thermal budget, you can make anything perform.

If more gaming software is written for IA-64 especially DX9 and drivers. It will show the true potential of 64-bit.

I don't think any games have ever been written for IA-64. And I wouldn't bring up 64 bit. Generally speaking, the bitness of an ISA is the size of its ints, not fp. In that case, get an A64 or P4 w/ x86-64. Both will make any Itainium2 yet made look bad (and for a couple grand less).

[freecableguy]

Saratoga....IA64 is not the same as X86-64/EMT64...not even close. I don't think you have any idea of the power of Itanium 2 chips or their purposes. This is not going to be a gaming rig. Sheesh.

[gallant]

You are one crazy fugger...ermm...FUGGER. :p: :banana:

*Dreams*

Fugger uses Quad proc Itanium 2 rig to run highly advanced overclocking simulations to determine the exact process which will allow him to break the 10 ghz barrier.


*Wakes up*


Ehhh, huh? :slobber: